Heavenly Illumination City, Golden Phoenix Tower, a private room on the third floor.
Barely clothed, Liu Wei knelt shamelessly on the floor and declared with determination, "No! If Lord Zhenyi cannot forgive me, I will stay on my knees forever...!"
Ren Ye looked at him in feigned surprise and spread his hands. "Brother Liu, what exactly do you mean?! I don't even know what you've done to wrong me. What is there to forgive?"
Beside them, Daoist Chu lounged in a chair, picked up an exquisite pastry from the table, and ate it with the look of someone settling in for a good show.
Liu Wei knelt bolt upright, his head lowered, his face red, his entire body trembling, as though working himself up into some emotion.
"Get up, quickly. We're brothers. I really can't accept such a grand gesture." Feigning alarm, Ren Ye offered this insincere encouragement and reached out to help him up.
Smack!
Unexpectedly, Liu Wei suddenly raised his right arm and slapped himself hard across the face. The blow was forceful, the sound crisp. "I'm not fucking human... I betrayed Lord Zhenyi's trust! I'm a shameless, despicable, spineless schemer... Boo-hoo... I deserve to die ten thousand times!"
That slap was only the beginning of Liu Wei's emotional outburst. Cursing himself, he wept bitterly and kept swinging his arm.
Smack, smack, smack...!
A rhythmic succession of blows against flesh rang out, its beat even fiercer and more deafening than when Liu Wei visited brothels for free. He slapped himself over a dozen times in succession, gradually swelling his right cheek, tears flying. "I'm shameless! I'm despicable! I'm calculating! I'm disgusting...!"
"Shut up! I won't allow you to insult my Lord Zhenyi with those snide insinuations." Still eating pastries, Daoist Chu feigned "furious outrage," attacking one person under